If you have been trying to eat healthy but haven’t succeeded as you crave delicious food, then we feel you. But the good news is healthy food can be tasty too! All you need is a little help from the chefs to make some sumptuous and yummy salads at home. So we have asked two chefs to share easy and delectable recipes that will leave you craving for more. Read on and get started!
Ingredients
½ cup Pot Barley
1 Orange segments
½ No Pomegranate
1 tbsp Roasted peanuts
1 tbsp Hung curd
4-5 Leaves Chopped mint
1 tbsp Orange reduction
1 tbsp Tomato tempering
2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Cracked pepper
4 to 5 Fried curry leaves
1 tsp Brown onion
For Tomato Tempering
30 ml Oil
1 tsp Mustard seeds
3 to 4 Curry leaves
½ no Chopped Onion
½ no Chopped Tomato
1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
1 tsp Salt
Method for Tomato Tempering:
For orange reduction
1 cup Orange juice
1 tsp Sugar
1 no Cinnamon
Method for orange reduction:
Put everything in a pan and heat at a medium flame till it reaches a syrup like consistency.
Store it in refrigerator in a sterilized glass jar.
For the salad
Recipe by Chef Utkarsh Bhalla, Brand Chef, Sly Granny and Sly Granny Cafe
Ingredients:
For salad
40gm Cucumber dice
40gm Cherry tomato halves
10gm Basil
10gm Mint
20gm Focaccia croutons
160gm Microgreens
5gm Flax seeds
20 ml Lime dressing
For dressing
400 ml Lime
10 gm Salt
20 gm Black pepper
30 Focaccia bread croutons
Method of Preparation:
For dressing
Whisk all dressing ingredients together in a bowl.
For focaccia crouton
Cut the focaccia breads into large cubes, dry them in oven at 140’C till golden brown and dried.
For salad
Toss all the ingredients together with lime dressing, salt and pepper.
Add focaccia croutons to the salad.
Sprinkle flax seeds as garnish.
Recipe by Chef Manjul Myne, AnnaMaya, Andaz Delhi